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Re:California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous by dlazar on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:08AM (#26248104)
> It also opens the door to a “nightmare scenario”: That the two viruses will meet in a single person, swap their mutations, and create an even more dangerous strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

How would that even work? This is an RNA virus: is there a meiosis-like mechanism for two different RNA viruses infecting the same cell to exchange genes?

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Re:California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous by MagnumOpus on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:10AM (#26248430)
Yes there is, see [1] for details. Either by reassortment or copy choice recombination if both virus variants infect the same cell.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324781/

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